Region in focus: September 2, 2015

An anti-government protester shouts slogans during a demonstration in Martyrs' Square, downtown Beirut, Lebanon. Hassan Ammar / AP Photo

A protester holds a placard during a demonstration against alleged government corruption, in Beirut. Hussein Malla / AP Photo

Palestinian social activists working for the International South Cooperation (Cooperazione Internazionale Sud Sud, or CISS) entertain children who are cancer patients, while dressed as clowns inside a hospital in Gaza City. Mohammed Salem / Reuters

Pakistani protesters burn a representation of the Indian flag, to condemn Indian shelling at Pakistani villages, in Peshawar, Pakistan. Mohammad Sajjad / AP Photo

Libyan Red Crescent workers carry the body of a drowned migrant who washed up along with several others in Zuwara, Libya. Mohamed Ben Khalifa / AP Photo

Al Jazeera television journalists Mohamed Fahmy (C), and Baher Mohamed (top left), talk to the media with lawyer Amal Clooney (2nd R) and Canadian Ambassador to Egypt Troy Lulashnyk (R), before the journalists verdict at a court in Cairo, Egypt. Asmaa Waguih / Reuters

Israeli border police detain a Palestinian demonstrator during clashes between Israeli border police and Palestinian demonstrators at a protest near the West bank city of Biet Jala. Abed Al Hashlamoni / EPA

Iraqi Raeed Jamal, 23, uses a spray gun to custom paint a guitar at his workshop in the upmarket Mansur district of Baghdad. Haidar Mohammed Ali / AFP

A boy sits next to an unusable car in the northwestern province of Amran, Yemen. Khaled Abdullah / Reuters

A protester flashes victory signs during a demonstration in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. Bilal Hussein / AP Photo

A selection of the best images from around the Gulf and across the Middle East this past week.